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Unused capital losses and the tax implications of living elsewhere were among the topics raised in the latest batch of reader letters. Here’s what they wanted to know. Q: My father passed away in 2013 and willed everything to his spouse. All the investments were rolled over to her and there were no dispositions. He had no capital gains that year, but $8,000 of losses carried forward from previous years. Is there any way to use those losses?

MONTREAL — Don’t call it smuggling. It’s a familiar refrain from the Mohawk vendors who sneak millions of cigarettes into Canada from the United States each year. The Mohawks insist they’re just taking the tobacco from one end of their backyard to the other.

It’s not yet clear precisely what the Prime Minister and Assembly of First Nations chiefs accomplished at their meeting Friday, but the fact that they met at all, after the tumult and confusion of the preceding 24 hours, must be counted as achievement enough.

Well, it’s official: Canada is out of Kyoto. While critics were quick to chastise our government for its decision to withdraw from the international accord, supporters have passionately jumped to Ottawa’s defense, arguing it really makes no difference whether we are involved in the agreement. After all, they say, our country is responsible for only about 1.85 per cent of global emissions, which makes Canada an insignificant source of carbon pollution.

Anyone who has passed along Sussex Drive over the past 50 days or so would have noticed 10 Iranian Canadians on hunger strike in front of the American Embassy. As their health deteriorates, their appeal to the Canadian and American governments to intervene effectively against Iraqi brutality would appear to be continuing to fall on deaf ears.